THURLOW (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred
of RISBRIDGE, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N. by E.)
from Haverhill, containing 436 inhabitants. The living
is a rectorj', hi the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £7.10.5.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. R. C. Barnard. The
church is dedicated to St, Peter. Sir Stephen Soame, in
1618, bequeathed an annuity of £30 in support of a
free school for the instruction of twelve boys: he also
left a like sum for the endowment of almshouses for
eight poor persons who had resided in the parish twentyfour
years, and, in default thereof, to those of Great
Thurlow, or Wratting.